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Navigating in the BDV views.¶

Action

Key

View.

Move in X & Y.

Right-click and Drag.

Move in Z.

Mouse-wheel.
Press and hold Shift to move faster, Control to move slower.

Align with XY plane

Shift Z

Align with YZ plane

Shift X

Align with XZ plane

Shift C or Shift A.
For these 3 shortcuts, the view will rotate around the mouse position on the BDV.

Zoom / Unzoom.

Control + Shift + Mouse-wheel or Command + Mouse-wheel.
The view will zoom and unzoom around the mouse location.

Time-points.

Next time-point.

] or M

Previous time-point.

[ or N

Bookmarks.

Store a bookmark.

Shift B then press any key to store a bookmark with this key as label.
A bookmark stores the position, zoom and orientation in the view but not the time-point. Bookmarks are saved in display settings file.

Recall a bookmark.

Press B then the key of the bookmark.

Recall a bookmark orientation.

Press O then the key of the bookmark. Only the orientation of the bookmark will be restored.

Image display.

Select source 1, 2 …

Press 1 / 2 …

Brightness and color dialog.

Press S.
In this dialog you can adjust the min & max for each source, select to what sources these min & max apply and pick a color for each source.

Toggle fused mode.

Press F.
In fused mode, several sources are overlaid. Press Shift + 1 / Shift + 2 … to add / remove the source to the view. In single-source mode, only one source is shown.

Visibility and grouping dialog.

Press F6.
In this dialog you can define what sources are visible in fused mode, and define groups of sources for use in the grouping mode.

Save / load display settings.

F11 / F12.
This will create a XYZ_settings.xml file in which the display settings and bookmarks will be saved.

Table of Contents

A. Using Mastodon

  • Getting started with Mastodon. Automated tracking.
  • Manually editing tracks in Mastodon. TrackScheme.
  • Inspecting large datasets.
  • Numerical features and tags. The table view.
  • Semi-automated tracking.
  • The selection creator.
  • Scripting Mastodon in Fiji.

B. Keyboard shortcuts tables

  • Navigating in the BDV views.
  • Navigating in the TrackScheme views.
  • Navigating in the table views.
  • Navigation with the Focus.
  • Setting the selection.

C. Extending Mastodon

  • Mastodon data structures.

D. Technical informmation

  • Mastodon numerical features.
  • The graph data structure of Mastodon.
  • Containment in Convex Polytopes using k-D trees.
  • Scripting functions

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